Ukraine Gate- Kyiv – May 9, 2022- The Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Solsky announced during a briefing at the Information Center of Ukraine, that despite the active sowing campaign, this year farmers lagged behind last year’s indicators by 20-30%, and there are obvious difficulties, the difficulties arise from the amount of equipment, the large number Among them in the foreground, curfews, storage of seeds and fuel, all this slows down planting by 20-30%, sowing is also postponed for a while, and indicated that farmers are changing the structure of crops.
As the main spring crop we are accustomed to is corn, and its planting is declining to save money, and farmers are also planting other spring crops such as wheat. The number of acreage planted for corn is also decreasing, and farms are planting sunflowers and soybeans instead.
On May 5, 2022, farmers planted 80% of the planned areas for spring crops of the early group in 12 regions, and the planting of spring crops for the first group was fully completed. By 2.778 million hectares over last year.
